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“It’s happening all over, in all sorts of families, not just young people moving back home but also young people taking longer to reach adulthood overall,” claims writer Robin Marantz Henig in her New York Times piece, “What Is It About 20-Somethings?: Why are so many people in their twenties taking so long to grow up?”
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Twenty-somethings turn away from religion and toward secular communities
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America’s education system: a shiny bubble-wrapped, predestined package that includes undergraduate and graduate studies. Then, the moment the diploma hits our palm, we break out of the box like a chick from a shell as we step out into the world to start the job search, and to start making our millions. It’s a good plan, a great one even. But what if we don’t know what we want to do?
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Students across the country are occupying today for tomorrow
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During a summer at the New Hampshire State House, Ben Savard sorted through mail and emails sent to New Hampshire’s governor: concerns and thank yous were transcribed into concise messages, death threats were handled by someone of a higher authority and the weekly Pixar or Disney-themed postcards from a random Florida resident were put into an entirely separate file. The following summer at Florentine Films, Savard helped make a database of all the images ever used in a Ken Burns documentary, read over scripts and answered phones. And so was the life of an unpaid intern.
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Poor 20-something year-old men. Actually, let me clarify. Poor 20-something white, middle-class, heterosexual males. This particular group of “privileged” individuals have been under siege for a while in American society.
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The United States often prides itself on the notion that women have full, legal rights — to education, to employment and to make their own choices. But those legal rights face significant roadblocks when it comes to the doctor’s office; there, the country’s assurance of reproductive rights falls terribly short.
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Students who are undocumented immigrants advocate for a better future